Report finds that Russia violated North Korean sanctions by allowing North Korea to use a Russian port and ships to receive more than 600,000 tons of oil and goods. The illicit trade was falsely recorded as Chinese trade.

www.voanews.com—A worker checks the valve of an oil pipe at an oil field owned by Russian state-owned oil producer Bashneft near the village of Nikolo-Berezovka, northwest of Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia, Jan. 28, 2015.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says he warned Russia, China and others at a major summit in Asia over the weekend not to violate sanctions on North Korea, asserting that the Trump administration has no intention of lifting them until Pyongyang fully abandons its nuclear weapons. "I called on them ...

The secretary of state said the United States believes in the accuracy of reports that Russia is giving new guest-worker permits to North Koreans and entering into joint ventures with North Korean firms, which would violate U.N. bans against trade with Pyongyang.